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Old 01-18-2009, 03:02 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: frozen plants

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Originally Posted by Chironex View Post
I would tell them $5 each since they were frozen and probably won't live. In a week they will probably toss them anyhow. Not very easy to sell in their condition. People like to buy fresh-looking plants.
I second that! Talk to the manager.

Just before Christmas, I saw some scraggly looking SDCs at Lowe's and I tried to talk the clerk into cutting the price down from the $10 tag, but she said that she couldn't do that. A week later, I was looking for something else, but stopped at the garden area, wherupon, I saw this large 7-foot Cinnamon Tree that had no price tag. I looked and I looked and saw nothing.

Then a couple of Lowe's people came to me and asked if they could help. I told them that I was just curious about the price of the tree. They immediately told me that the last price on it was $59.99. I thank them and started to turn away, when they said that they'd mark it down to $14.99, so I bought it. Then I asked the lady if she were Miss Kim. When she said yes, I said that I wanted to find out if she could give me a break on a couple of scraggly looking bananas. After some hunting, she finally found the 2 plants and told me that they worth at least $0.10, so again I bought them.

I looked around further, and found 4 other SDCs that were in great shape, and asked Miss Kim again how much they were, and she just wrote $4.99 on each of them.

It pays to ask!
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